Too Long; Didn't Read
Even though I have only been doing web development for four years, it appears to have been the most tumultuous four years in the history of the discipline. When I started out, all-in-one frameworks like Angular and Ember were all the rage. Developers were eschewing the pattern of stitching together various libraries, jQuery plugins, and lightweight modular solutions like Backbone. The promise of these frameworks was that they would create their own ecosystems of compatible components, encompassing all possible functionality.